Salem Must Burn (film)

Movie
German title	Salem must burn
Original title	Salem's Lot
Country of production	United States
original language	English
Publishing year	1979
length	183 minutes
Age rating	FSK 16
Rod
Director	Tobe Hooper
script	Paul Monash
production	Richard Kobritz
music	Harry Sukman
camera	Jules Brenner
cut	Tom Pryor ; Carroll Sax
occupation
	David Soul : Ben Mears; Lance Kerwin : Mark Petrie; Bonnie Bedelia : Susan Norton; James Mason : Richard Straker; Kenneth McMillan : Sheriff Gillespie; Reggie Nalder : Dr. Kurt Barlow; James Gallery : Father Callahan; Lew Ayres : Jason Berk;

Burning must Salem (alternative title: Der Schreck im Marsten-Haus , original title: Salem's Lot ) is an American miniseries from 1979. The horror film directed by Tobe Hooper is based on the novel Burning Must Salem by Stephen King .

action

The prologue shows a church in Guatemala where a man and a boy, "Ben Mears" and "Mark Petrie", are bottling holy water. When one of the bottles starts to glow, the man says: "You have found us again." The action begins two years earlier in Maine , USA : After many years, the writer Ben Mears returns to his native city Jerusalem's Lot ( called Salem's Lot by the locals) to write a book about the Marsten house.

But the house has already been sold to a mysterious antique dealer named Richard Straker. He wants to open an antique shop in town with his partner Kurt Barlow.

Scary incidents soon ensue: people disappear or die of anemia. Ben knows that it can only be due to the Marsten house and that evil in the form of vampires is in Salem's Lot. Ben Mears and Mark Petrie eventually flee to Latin America, but the vampires take their tracks.

background

There is a long TV version of Brennen muss Salem as well as a feature film version that has been streamlined for the European market, but with some more explicit scenes.

In Germany, the feature film version was released on video on August 8, 1985. The full TV version was first broadcast on November 12, 1985 on Sat.1 . Warner Home Video released the long (183 minutes) version on Blu-ray for the first time in Germany on September 22, 2016.

Reviews

"Poor scary film that at times cleverly combines set pieces of the genre without being able to unite them into a dense story."

- Lexicon of international film

“Annoying shocker to vampires and other bad guys; excellent Mason as a sinister antique dealer and Nalder as the chief vampire. "

- Adolf Heinzlmeier and Berndt Schulz , Lexicon "Films on TV"

Aftermath

In 1987 Larry Cohen shot a feature film sequel entitled Salem II - The Return freely based on motifs from King's novel. In 2004 a remake was made under the title Salem's Lot - Salem must burn .

literature

Stephen King: Salem has to burn. Roman (original title: Salem's Lot ). German by Peter Robert. Zsolnay, Vienna 2006, 734 pages, ISBN 3-552-05381-6

Web links

Burning must Salem in theInternet Movie Database(English)
Burning must Salem atRotten Tomatoes(English)

Individual evidence

^ Time Out Film Guide, Seventh Edition 1999. Penguin, London 1998, p. 784.
↑ ^a ^b Salem must burn in the lexicon of international film .
^ Adolf Heinzlmeier, Berndt Schulz: Lexicon "Films on Television" (extended new edition). Rasch and Röhring, Hamburg 1990, ISBN 3-89136-392-3 , p. 721.

[1] Time Out Film Guide, Seventh Edition 1999. Penguin, London 1998, p. 784.

[ldif-2] Salem must burn in the lexicon of international film .

[3] Adolf Heinzlmeier, Berndt Schulz: Lexicon "Films on Television" (extended new edition). Rasch and Röhring, Hamburg 1990, ISBN 3-89136-392-3 , p. 721.


Movies	Carrie - Des Satan's Youngest Daughter (1976) • Burning Must Salem (1979) • Shining (1980) • Cujo (1983) • Dead Zone (1983) • Christine (1983) • Children of Wrath (1984) • The Fire Devil (1984) • Devil's Gift (1984) • Werewolf from Tarker Mills (1985) • Cat's Eye (1985) • Stand by Me - The Secret of a Summer (1986) • Rhea M - It Started Without Warning (1986) • Running Man (1987) • Stuffed Animal Cemetery (1989) • Tales from the Shadow World (1990) • Night Shift (1990) • Misery (1990) • Stephen King's It (1990) • Sometimes They Come Back (1991) • Stuffed Animal Cemetery II ( 1992) • Children of Wrath 2 - Deadly Harvest (1992) • The Lawnmower Man (1992) • Sleepwalker (1992) • Tommyknockers (1993) • Stephen Kings Stark (1993) • In a Small Town (1993) • The Condemned (1994) • Stephen King's The Stand (1994) • Children of Wrath 3 - The Chicago Massacre (1995) • The Langoliers (1995) • Dolores (1995) • The Mangler (199 5) • Thinner (1996) • Children of Wrath IV - Murderous Cult (1996) • Sometimes They Come Again II (1996) • Stephen King's Quicksilver Highway (1997) • Trucks - Out of Control (1997) • Quicksilver Highway (1997) • The Shining (1997) • Stephen King's The Night Flier (1997) • The Model Student (1998) • Children of Wrath 5 - Field of Terror (1998) • Children of Wrath 6 - Isaac's Return (1999) • The Storm of the Century (1999) • The Green Mile (1999) • The Mangler 2 (2001) • Hearts in Atlantis (2001) • Children of the Corn: Revelation (2001) • Fire Devil - The Return (2002) • Carrie (2002) • Stephen King's House of Doom (2002) • Dreamcatcher (2003) • Salem's Lot - Burning Must Salem (2004) • The Secret Window (2004) • Riding the Bullet (2004) • Desperation (2006) • Room 1408 (2007) • The Nebel (2007) • Dolan's Cadillac (2009) • Children of the Corn (2009) • Everything's Eventual (2009) • Children of Anger: Genesis - The Beginning (2011) • Willa (2013) • Carrie (2013) • Stephen King's a Good Marriage (2014) • Mercy - The Devil Knows No Mercy (2014) • Big Driver (2014) • Willa (short film) (2015) • Pulse (2016) • The Dark Tower (2017) • 1922 (2017 ) • The Game (2017) • It (2017) • The Doctor's Case (2018) • Mute (2018) • Cemetery of Stuffed Animals (2019) • It Chapter 2 (2019) • In the Tall Grass (2019) • Doctor Sleeps Awakening ( 2019)
TV Shows	Kingdom Hospital (2004) • Salem's Lot (2004) • Stephen King's Nightmares (2006) • Haven (2010–2015) • Stephen King's Bag of Bones (2011) • Under the Dome (2013–2015) • 11.22. 63 - The Attack (2016) • The Fog (2017) • Mr. Mercedes (2017) • Castle Rock (2018)